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Believing in Aliens Derailed This Internet Pioneer’s Career. Now He’s Facing Prison


Joseph Firmage helped create today’s digital economy. These days, he’s being sued by antigravity-machine investors and claiming to be hounded by a Jamaican wire-fraud gang, with a guy pretending to be Steven Mnuchin along for the ride.

One day in August 2021, Joseph Firmage walked into a video production studio in Salt Lake City and declared that he was going to change the world. Flanked by a bodyguard, he wanted to shoot a marketing reel for the major inventions he was building, according to the studio’s owner, Brandy Vega. These included limitless clean energy devices, self-powered homes and antigravity propulsion systems.

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